Word: wuchang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pach-marhi, Central India, which began: "Re: change of address due to Punjab massacre . . ." For many of our subscribers in China, a change of address is now out of the question and communications like the following have been coming to us: "Unfortunately, the Communists are approaching my native city (Wuchang), and an iron curtain will soon be tightly drawn between us and the West. American publications, especially, will be prohibited . . . For the sake of my safety, please stop corresponding with your humble reader...
This week a suave, slight Chinese Protestant prescribed the same rule for the conversion of his enormous and absorbent country. Dr. Francis Cho Min Wei knows what he is talking about. In China he is a college president-of Hua Chung College (Christian) in Wuchang. In the U.S. (this year) he is Henry W. Luce Visiting Professor of World Christianity at Union Theological Seminary. In both countries he is a recognized authority on Chinese conversion, who says of himself: "My whole study and research has been directed to discovering how to Christianize the Chinese culture...
...Chung is a Chinese refugee university. Driven from Wuchang to Kweilin by Japanese bombers, it now carries on deep in the hills of southern Yunnan Prov ince. From that inflation-blighted remote ness, a Chinese-American couple recently sent the U.S. an eye-opening report. It appears in the current Atlantic Monthly...
Typical is Hua Chung College. Japanese air raids drove it from its campus at Wuchang. Japanese planes later bombed it out of Kweilin. Salvaging what equipment they could, Hua Chung's students and faculty trekked over 800 miles west to remote Yunnan Province...